Amended in Assembly August 11, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

House Resolution No. 52

Introduced by Assembly begin delete Members Nazarian and end delete begin insert Member end insert Holden

August 4, 2014

House Resolution No. 52—Relative to Old Spanish Trail Day in California.

WHEREAS, In 1829, Antonio Armijo, a merchant from Santa
Fe, led 60 men and approximately 100 mules on known Native
American and later Fur Trappers/Traders trails northward through
northwestern New Mexico, southwestern Colorado, southern Utah,
northern Arizona, and southern Nevada, across the Mojave Desert
into the San Gabriel Mission, and finally to the Los Angeles Plaza
where their goods were sold or exchanged; and

WHEREAS, The Old Spanish Trail was used successfully as a
major Southwestern Trade and Migration Route between 1829 and
1848 in delivering Native American, Spanish, and Mexican goods
along the approximately 3,500 miles of the trail that helped enable
the settlement of the west; and

WHEREAS, The Old Spanish Trail Association (OSTA) is a
nonprofit, tax-exempt organization supported by a broad
membership in 27 states and 13 local chapters in the six Old
Spanish Trail States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New
Mexico, and Utah) and England; and

WHEREAS, The Old Spanish Trail became the 15th National
Historic Trail when Congress adopted S. 1946 in November begin delete 2002
and end delete begin insert 2002, which end insert President George W. Bush signed begin delete it end delete into law in
December 2002; and

WHEREAS, It is the begin delete Mission end delete begin insert mission end insert of OSTA to study,
preserve, protect, interpret, educate, and promote respectful use
of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail and closely related
historic routes, begin delete as well as promoting end delete begin insert and to promote end insert public
awareness of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail and its
multicultural heritage by encouraging research, publication, and
partnering with governments and private historical, educational,
and tourist organizations; and

WHEREAS, California recognizes and commends OSTA for
its efforts to study, preserve, protect, interpret, educate, and
promote respectful use of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail
and its multicultural heritage; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That the
Assembly declares Saturday, October 4, 2014, and the first
Saturday in October of each subsequent year, as Old Spanish Trail
Day in California; and be it further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies
of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.